Background
Michel Étienne Descourtilz was born on November 25, 1777 in Boiste, France.
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Gallery of Michel Descourtilz
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Gallery of Michel Descourtilz
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Gallery of Michel Descourtilz
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Gallery of Michel Descourtilz
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Gallery of Michel Descourtilz
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Gallery of Michel Descourtilz
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book
Des champignons comestibles
https://www.amazon.com/champignons-comestibles-lindication-neutraliser-nu%C3%ACsibles-ebook/dp/B07DTSR93X/?tag=2022091-20
2018
Voyage d'Un Naturaliste
https://www.amazon.com/Voyage-dUn-Naturaliste-French/dp/0274582910/?tag=2022091-20
2018
Flore Médicale Des Antilles, Ou, Traité Des Plantes Usuelles
https://www.amazon.com/M%C3%A9dicale-Antilles-Trait%C3%A9-Plantes-Usuelles/dp/0274924838/?tag=2022091-20
2018
Flore Pittoresque Et Médicale Des Antilles, Ou, Histoire Naturelle Des Plantes Usuelles Des Colonies Françaises, Anglaises, Espagnoles, Et Portugaises
https://www.amazon.com/Pittoresque-Naturelle-Fran%C3%A7aises-Espagnoles-Portugaises/dp/0274957841/?tag=2022091-20
2018
De l'Impuissance Et de la Stérilité, Ou Richerches Sur l'Anaphrodisie Distinguée de l'Agénésie
https://www.amazon.com/lImpuissance-St%C3%A9rilit%C3%A9-Richerches-lAnaphrodisie-Distingu%C3%A9e/dp/0353827843/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Michel Étienne Descourtilz
Edit ProfileBotanist historiographer physician scientist
Michel Étienne Descourtilz was a French botanist, historiographer and physician. He served as a physician with the forces of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, in a hospital at Beaumont, and served as president of the Paris Linnean Society. His plant collections were mostly from between Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien and along the Artibonite River.
Education
Descourtilz was trained as a surgeon. In 1814 he became a doctor of medicine.
Career
Descourtilz went to Saint-Domingue (Haiti) in 1798, on the way visiting Charleston, South Carolina, and Santiago de Cuba. He became involved in the Negro revolution and, in spite of the protection of Toussaint L’Ouverture, was nearly executed by Dessalines. He was forced to join the medical service of the Negro army, but in 1803 he escaped and sailed to Cádiz.
He practiced in Orléans; was for a while physician at the Hôtel-Dieu in Beaumont-en-Gâtinais; and retired to Paris. Most of his original drawings and manuscripts, as well as his herbarium, were burned in Haiti; and in writing his books he had to rely on the works of Plumier, Joseph Surian, Alexandre Poiteau, and Turpin.
Achievements
Works
book
- Des champignons comestibles 2018
- Voyage d'Un Naturaliste 2018
- De l'Impuissance Et de la Stérilité, Ou Richerches Sur l'Anaphrodisie Distinguée de l'Agénésie 2019
- Flore Médicale Des Antilles, Ou, Traité Des Plantes Usuelles 2018
- Flore Pittoresque Et Médicale Des Antilles, Ou, Histoire Naturelle Des Plantes Usuelles Des Colonies Françaises, Anglaises, Espagnoles, Et Portugaises 2018
Membership
In Paris Descourtilz was a member of the Société de Médecine Pratique, and became a president of the Société Linnéenne.
Connections
Descourtilz was married to the daughter of Rossignol-Desdunes, who had plantations in Artibonite. He was the father of illustrator Jean-Théodore Descourtilz, with whom he sometimes collaborated.
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Career
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1798 - 1803